Stuff

I am wondering what we have done in the past couple of weeks. We tell the children we keep busy, but when we look at notes for the last week, it seems like we haven't accomplished anything.

So here is a list of the nothing we have been doing:

Basketball - M, T, Th nights and tournaments on the week end

Scouts - Wednesday evenings

Subbing - I sub, Bruce subs, we all sub, hurray!

Mary Kay party

an 80th birthday celebration for Archie and his fam

Quilting for RS

Haircut for moi

a baptism

endless meetings for church

Subbing in Primary

sometimes cleaning the house, but not really

sewing quilt tops for art exhibits

Home Sweet Home

We made the last payment on our home with the extra income of two months.

Tra La! We wired the last payment on Friday and now we wait for the deed.

I don't know a vacation to Alaska or down the Mississippi would have been nice...

We are going to Yellowstone and to see Duncan the end of the month on our way to bless the new grand baby in Utah. And we will see fireworks and maybe a parade and go shopping and build a picnic table.

We are living the dream.

Bob's bench

We went to Corvallis On Friday on our way to Grandpa Bob's bench dedication.

I love staying with the Grandchildren and their parents... We watched Thea taking some wobbly steps and Matt showing us the things he built at Home Depot and Wyatt sharing his Cocoa Puffs with us. I love it when the boys say " Hey Grandma, look at this." It is soul satisfying.

Saturday we went to the Farmer's Market. Bruce got some cranberry, hazelnut sour dough bread. We got some cheese, a bag of hazelnuts and a bag of sunflower sprouts for a dollar. ( just the sprouts) and then on to Medford to stay with Dan. We went to a doggie park . I have never been to one before. They had a skate park, a bike park , tennis courts and the doggie park. The doggie park is enclosed with a track and all the dogs run free to smell each other, run and poop. There are shovels and trash cans to dispose the business. We walked around the track four times. Hallie, our grand-dog liked to run. she ran around a huge bush/tree thing in the middle of the park and then under a picnic table , the dog chasing her kept going around the bush/tree. It was funny. We went to Mongolian Grill with Dan for dinner.

On sunday we went to the singles branch with Dan and then off to the dedication. I figured it would be easy to find as we had been to the park before. We got there at 10 till and we were still walking around 20 minutes later when we spotted Uncle Dan and Kim going to the parking lot. We got directions to the food/drinks and then took pictures of the bench which I will add later when we down load them.

I am glad we went even tho we missed the dedication.

The food was marvelous and as Bob always wrote what they had to eat I will continue that tradition. I helped Angie in the kitchen slicing a long English cucumber on the diagonal. I then added a dollop of Hummus and then added sliced green onions.

We also had:

Goat cheese in philo mini tarts

cream cheese with sun dried tomatoes dip

French baguette bread sliced on the diagonal

sourdough baguette bread sliced on the diagonal

Meatballs

Pulled pork with rolls

shrimp, crab and desert was Lemon mini philo tarts (Andrew had 6) and banana bread in a bundt cake shape dripping with nuts and carmel

Thank - you John and Angie for putting this together. It was a calm, peaceful closure to remember Grandpa Bob.